id

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Abbreviation of identification, identifier, or identity document.

   “Show me your ID.”

   “The keys are not as flat and offer more space between them. Better yet, you still maintain a physical row of function keys (including ESC) and the Touch ID sensor is still here.”

2. (countable, uncountable)An ident.

   “If not done at the top of the hour, however, the station ID should come at the next possible break in the programme.”

3. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of image description.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of intellectual disability.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of intelligent design.
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of industrial design.
7. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of inside diameter, inner diameter, or internal diameter.
8. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of industry discount.
9. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of iron deficiency.
10. The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.

    “"There is one sentence in it, however - namely: 'I protest strongly against the insufferable and entirely dogmatic assertion that each separate id is a microcosm possessed of an historical architecture elaborated slowly through the series of generations.' Have you no desire, in view of later research, to modify this statement?"”

    “Almost as an afterthought, we’re given an origin story for Barney’s alcoholism: he was once a sober, studious, Ivy League-bound high school scholar before Homer forced a beer on him that transformed him into a drooling, slurring, out of control rampaging id.”

    “The phenomenon may seem like a random burble of the internet’s id, but Alvarez has been making similarly entrancing—if mostly nonmusical—work for the past few years.”

11. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of ide (the fish)
12. Identifier.
13. (India, alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Eid.

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Idaho: a state of the United States.
2. (India, alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Eid.

verb

1. (transitive)To identify (an object, etc.).

   “Police have been unable to ID the body found in the river.”

2. (transitive)To request to see a person’s identification for proof of identity or age.

   “The bartender will have to ID you before serving you a drink.”

   “Anyway, Margiotti found the guard and showed him the picture. He ID'ed it. Sort of. It was dark.”

3. (intransitive)To identify (as something)

   “I have one black grandfather, but I don't ID as mixed race”

adj

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable)Initialism of intellectually disabled.

pron

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of id..